HP Prime Beta Firmware Version 2.2 Revision 15008

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(07-19-2024 09:49 AM)toml_12953 Wrote:  How strange that a language named after a famous French mathematician/philosopher should be translated to French.

Point taken

This said, the Académie Française was very, very protective of the French language back then (we're talking about the mid '80s here). Radio stations weren't allowed to broadcast more than 40% non-French-language music, movies had to be dubbed in French (subtitles weren't good enough, apparently) to be broadcast on national TV... You get the picture.

I think the Académie Française realised they were fighting a losing battle when the internet took off in France in the late '90s. Until then, France Télécom was still pushing people to use the Minitel for their information needs and only really relented when everyone else in Europe had easy access to the internet.